For Developers

OAuth Newbies can find it tricky initially. In this tutorial you’ll learn how to get started with OAuth 2.0 while avoiding all the fiddly parts around handling tokens. The folks over at Insomnia will show you how to authenticate an API client for the GitHub API with OAuth 2.0 and the Insomnia app.

This is part 3 of our series on the U.S. government's Green Button API initiative. In this part, we will describe the building blocks of Green Button technology and how they respond to the project requirements with respect to authorization of access to data provided to third parties.

This is part 4 of our series What is The Green Button API initiative and How It Took OAuth To An Entirely New Level. In this part we explain the structure of Green Buttons’ scope parameters and illustrate the data exchanges and protocol used to implement Green Button’s scope negotiation.